Rare Birds in British Columbia
Our list for British Columbia has 75 rare birds recorded regularly there: 11 residents, 38 summer visitors, 5 winter visitors, 19 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in British Columbia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 75, most common first
BramblingFringilla montifringillaScarceRare14–16 cm
Rock PtarmiganLagopus mutaSummer visitorRare34–36 cmRegularly May–Sep
Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinusPassage migrantRare30–38 cmRegularly Jul–Aug
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorRare7–9 cmRegularly May–Aug
White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollisPassage migrantRare15–18 cmRegularly May–Jun
American Black DuckAnas rubripesWinter visitorRare54–59 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made